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FP7 One Year on Revolutionary and Working

The EU's Seventh Framework (FP7), now one year into its seven-year life span, is a 'kind of transition programme', taking Europe's research community in the direction of the new instruments that were introduced last year, said EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik in an interview with CORDIS News.

Supporting and Boosting Investment in eHealth

This study was commissioned by the Information Society and Media Directorate General with the aim to assess different financing opportunities against the financing needs of eHealth investment. Preliminary observations are available and a final report will be published at the end of the study (end 2008).

New ICTs for Elderly Must Respect Dignity

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) developed to help older people stay healthy for longer should be cost effective and respect the privacy and dignity of the elderly, MEPs have stated. Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy were voting on amendments to the Commission's proposal to set up an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme.

OMEGA Project to Develop User-Friendly Gigabit Home Networks

A home access network capable of delivering high bandwidth services and content at transmission speeds of one gigabit per second could soon become a reality thanks to a newly launched European research project. The EU-funded OMEGA project brings together 20 European partners from industry and academia with the common goal of developing a new global standard for ultra broadband home networks reaching one gigabit per second without the need to install new wires in homes.

International Consortium Announces the 1000 Genomes Project

An international research consortium announced the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that will involve sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world to create the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation. The project will receive major support from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, the Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen (BGI Shenzhen) in China and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0

Medicine 2.0 - How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research.
In the past few years we have seen the rapid evolution of new tools and programming techniques collectively called "Web 2.0 tools", which facilitate the development of collaborative and user-friendly Web applications. Typically, the Web 2.0 is a term which refers to

UK's Supercomputer HECToR Goes On Line

The UK has launched a new supercomputer facility called HECToR (High-end computing terascale resources). The system, which represents the equivalent of 12,000 desktop systems in processing power, is based at the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) and will run for six years.

Research and Development News

FP7 One Year on Revolutionary and Working

Supporting and Boosting Investment in eHealth

New ICTs for Elderly Must Respect Dignity

OMEGA Project to Develop User-Friendly Gigabit Home Networks

International Consortium Announces the 1000 Genomes Project

Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0

UK's Supercomputer HECToR Goes On Line

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